Avant Garde Movies

The mute documentary-experimental film "Ten Minutes of Silence" is a film expression of the trends embodied in the painting "Black Square" by...

The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next...

Building as a magic lantern preserving small stories of human interactions throught clear permutations in the editing room, a work that want to...

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected,...

A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.

Profile of the late iconoclastic director Curtis Harrington, featuring images from many of his poetic and haunting films.

A city in permanent darkness becomes the stage for four actresses rehearsing a play. As performance and reality converge, a mysterious presence...

Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters...

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels in 1981, this short captures scenes from Stockholm. The footage was later included in his 2003 compilation...

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.

A punk scarecrow, endowed by life, annihilates its roots and revitalizes its territory.

"Untitled begins with a flat, out-of-focus, reddish-pink screen on which blurry white patterns quickly appear and disappear. After awhile a space...

The Chronicle of a on-and-off relationship between two young men, plagued by alcoholism, violence, and too many second chances.

Described as 'a fairytale with its roots in the worlds of dadaism and surrealism'.

Traditional Northwestern Indigenous spiritual images combined with cutting-edge computer animation in this surreal short film about the power of...

Following an introduction which establishes the social context of the film, ‘The Politics of Perception’ presents a one-minute...

Digital Smoke is an experimental meditation on light, memory, and distortion. Shot at twilight in Minneapolis’s Loring Park, the film captures...

"Time, forward!" - two orchestral suites by George Sviridov, published for the first time in 1968 (first suite) and in 1977 (second suite). The...